‘Praise Song for My Mother’ written by Grace Nichols and ‘Morning Song’ Sylvia Plath both convey the emotional connection between mother and child‚ in the form of how a mother loves for and impacts her child. In ‘Praise Song for My Mother’‚ Nichols conveys the mother to be “Deep and bold and fathoming” as well as showing she is the “rise and warm and streaming” displaying the mother was a strong and bright figure in the Child’s life‚ through comforting and natural imagery. However‚ Plath’s persona
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Nettles and Praise song for my mother both explore the themes of child parent relationships and the duties the parents have in protecting and caring for their child. Nettles is written from the fathers perspective and is about one event which occurred where his son fell in a nettle bed and the father helps him recover. In contrast to this praise song is written to the mother from her daughter although both are adults whereas nettles emphasizes the child’s young age and vulnerability from the very
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In the poem by Grace Nichols ‘Of course when they ask for poems about the ‘Realities’ of black women’‚ this poem contains certain splits which reflect upon her experience as an immigrant moving from the Caribbean to the United Kingdom and how she collaborates her two worlds together‚ by using both Creole‚ the language from her homeland and Standard English. She resists the notions of the black women in a contemporary society through her poetry and is rather fond of her Caribbean heritage and also
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Compare how feelings between children and parents are presented in Praise Song for My Mother Grace Nichols and Harmonium Simon Armitage In both Praise Song for My Mother by Nichols and Harmonium by Armitage strong feelings between parents and children are explored. Nichols has written a personal love poem to her mother which expresses a deep respect and admiration for her. In Armitages poem however‚ the tone is very different as the poet reflects upon the lack of communication between him and his
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it was like in the most heated parts of their argument. Praise Song for My Mother is a poem about the love between mother and daughter‚ using multiple metaphors to distinguish the relationship. Both poems use metaphors to describe the speaker’s feelings towards the other person in the relationship‚ for example in Quickdraw “And this is love‚ high noon‚ calamity‚ hard liquor in the old Last Chance saloon.” Then in Praise Song for My Mother “You were water to me deep and bold and fathoming.” Although
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poems from AQA GCSE Anthology‚ Moon on the Tides. In this piece of writing I will be comparing and contrasting 3 poems. Which are ‘Praise Song for my mother’‚ ‘Harmonium’ and ‘Nettles. The title of each poem describes exactly what it is and what is about. ‘Praise Song for my Mother’ is not actually a poem‚ it is a praise son. Which in Guyana (where Grace Nichols was born) it is something written after a person close to them has dies. It is written to commemorate and rejoice about a persons life
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Promise – a creative response to ‘Praise Song for My Mother’ Teaching notes The aim of this task is to encourage students to write creatively using some of the ideas from ‘Praise Song for My Mother’ before reading the poem as a way of helping sensitising students to its ideas and language. The task could be developed by asking students to give feedback to one another on their work‚ and the most able or creative could be asked to redraft‚ then analyse and explain aspects of their work.
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Compare a daughter’s tribute to her mother in ‘Praise song for my mother’ with the poem ‘Nettles’. ‘Praise song for my mother’ is about a daughter showing how much she loves her mother by writing her a praise song. There are very strong emotions in this poem and the mother meant a lot to the daughter “You were moon’s eye to me”. ‘Nettles’ is about a young boy who falls into a bed of nettles‚ the boy then goes to his father “seeking for comfort”‚ the father identifies the wounds and the son gets
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Compare how poets portray relationships in ‘Praise Song For My Mother’ and ‘Ghazal’ Both ‘praise song for my mother’ and ‘ghazal’ use language devices to portray relationships. They use imagery‚ metaphors and structure to do so. They bother portray in different ways. ‘praise song for my mother’ portrays relationships as happy and fun whereas ‘ghazal’ portrays them as unpredictable and ever changing. In ‘ghazal’‚ Khalvati writes a different comparison to love in each stanza. ‘If yours is
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